This isn't the original release version.Here Comes The Flood | 4:31
Peter Gabriel | 745K subscribers | 157,171 views | October 17, 2018
Posted on 11/10/2024 12:24:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv
According to a statement released by the University of Bologna, researchers led by classicist Silvia Ferrara have discovered that designs on Mesopotamian cylinder seals were the precursors to certain signs in proto-cuneiform script, an archaic writing system based on pictographs. Some 6,000 years ago, engraved cylinder seals were created to record the production, storage, and transport of textiles, crops, and other goods. The seals were rolled on clay tablets to create impressions of the cylinder's etched designs. Sumerian scribes in the ancient city of Uruk, in modern-day southern Iraq, developed proto-cuneiform around 3000 b.c. Ferrara and her colleagues identified a number of seal designs concerning the transport of pottery and textiles that evolved into later proto-cuneiform signs used for the same purpose. "Our findings demonstrate that the designs engraved on cylinder seals are directly connected to the development of proto-cuneiform in southern Iraq," Ferrara said. "They also show how the meaning originally associated with these designs was integrated into a writing system." Read the original scholarly article about this research in Antiquity.
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LOL!
33:41
Did you notice something? He talked about a change in the weather forcing people to change their way of life.....Climate Change!?!?!? Imagine that, and there were no SUVs back then!
No kidding!
This isn't the original release version.Here Comes The Flood | 4:31
Peter Gabriel | 745K subscribers | 157,171 views | October 17, 2018
Yes, the original version is the best, Dick Wagner on guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C23LikPhWs
Yup. A friend of mine saw the first solo tour, and a guitarist was sitting in darkness off to one side, wasn’t introduced or acknowledged. My friend suspected it was Fripp. Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner worked together back when (DW’s been gone over 10 years I think), Hunter played the guitar part on Solsbury Hill and I think toured with PG.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4274834/posts?page=37#37
DW with The Frost:
Mystery Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm4byxG9uaw
Frost Music leadoff for one of the Musical Interlude topics:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4059560/posts
”It says ‘Aaaaaagh’”.
”Nobody writes out ‘Aaaaaagh’”.
I have a question about Chinese.
Even then, folks were berated for “your” “you’re”, “lose” “loose”.
:^)
It’s weird to think that cuneiform was in use for over 3000 years (the last known inscription dates from about 4th AD, similar to the last known Egyptian inscription using hieroglyphs), about the same length of time the alphabet has now been in use. :^)
The Phoenicians used one. And being seafaring people, they spread it around. The ancient Greeks attributed the introduction of the Greek alphabet to the Phoenicians. They used ships... I wonder if that’s where the Barca family got their name...
/rimshot
No kidding...I’m convinced that there were dudes on the high seas thousands of years before the Imperialists (as the Left calls our culture). But unlike ‘climate change’, in this case, people will have to make a strong (or at least decent) case to be ‘accepted science’.
I agree. You seem to be well read in the subject. I have study ancient script as well.
I thought Sumeria was full of adders.
LOL
First grade of course, every body know s that!
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ISWYDT........
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